LinkedIn is a more complete bio, but I’ve worked in the aerospace, education, and consumer products/ecommerce realms for 30 years and at least 20 years each. That results in an eclectic set of skills and experiences as you’ll no doubt wonder about later in this form. For example, education was a “hobby” as grant director and trustee of philanthropic foundation, then advisor, mentor and tutor for several “seed stage” entities (including Teach for America, KIPP, and YES), then elected school board member and president of HISD for four terms (13 years), then founding partner of a for profit preschool from 2020-present.

I started my advisory and angel/VC fund as a tax-optimized way of holding equity and sheltering income back in 1992 as I mentored and founded companies, then expanded that significantly in 2016 after leaving the COO position at an aerospace company and also retiring from my elected school board position.

That’s when I joined some Houston OGs to found Station Houston, and after that, was tapped to lead Houston Exponential, which was an extremely successful, if prematurely concluded effort to vastly increase the rate of growth of Houston’s startup ecosystem.

Anyway I’m back to my angel work and primarily two particular fractional CFO/CMO roles which give me exactly the work life balance I came to the Hill Country to enjoy. Hope I can help Capital Factory because, there’s nothing better in Texas in this realm.